Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual
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WAVELAB Data CD/DVD Projects 22 – 591 Note that at the end of the DVD burning process it can take up to 15 minutes to close the DVD. Please be patient. Closing method Here you can select a closing method. If you are adding the data por- tion to a CD-Extra CD, you must select “Close CD” (see “CD-Extra support” on page 575). Simulation Here you define if and how a simulation should be performed before the actual writing process. Simulating the writing process lets you find out whether the writing process will be successful, or if problems might oc- cur. Write to hard disk firstIf this function is active (ticked), the writing program first writes an image file onto your hard disk (which must have enough free space to hold the file). An image file has the advantage that the data to be recorded doesn’t have to be converted into CD format during burning, as this is done when the image file is created. The actual burning (recording) procedure will therefore be faster and performed with greater reliability and less risk of malfunction. Default Click on this button to save the current dialog settings as default. The next time you open the dialog, they will automatically be set. Advanced If you click the “Advanced” button, the dialog is extended downwards and you get access to five tabs. These let you make a number of addi- tional settings for the writing process. Item Description
WAVELAB 23 – 594 Importing audio CD/DVD tracks Importing audio CD tracks into WaveLab WaveLab provides the ability to read audio tracks from regular CDs. This makes a digital copy of the audio from the CD directly into an audio file on your hard disk. Although WaveLab supports a large number of CD drives, there are some restrictions you should be aware of: • There are a number of different, not very well standardized protocols for re- trieving audio from a CD-ROM/CD-R drive. WaveLab tries to support as many of these methods as possible, but there are no guaran- tees it will work with any particular drive. Some brands that reportedly use the same method still have slightly different implementations which might cause problems. • Please observe and respect any copyright notices on the CDs from which you are reading tracks! To import CD tracks, proceed as follows: 1.Insert the CD into the CD-ROM/CD-R unit. 2.Pull down the Tools menu and select “Import Audio CD tracks”. 3.Select the drive from which you want to read from the pop-up menu at the top of the dialog. 4.Select a read speed from the pop-up menu just beside this. For information about which speed to use, click the question mark icon. 5.If necessary, click Refresh so that the list of tracks is updated. The window now lists the tracks on the CD, plus some information about each track. Please note that the Copy Protection and Pre-emphasis columns are for information only, you can- not change these settings.
WAVELAB Importing audio CD/DVD tracks 23 – 595 •By default, the tracks will be named “Track XX”, where XX is a number starting at 01. You can adjust the auto numbering scheme by right-click- ing in the list and selecting an option from the pop-up menu that appears. This pop-up menu also contains some additional functions for saving individual tracks di- rectly as files, appending a track to the current Montage, etc. The “Import Audio CD Tracks” dialog 6.Click on the Folder button at the bottom of the dialog to select a destina- tion folder for the file(s). The files will be saved with the name that is shown in the track list. To rename a file, double click on it in the track list and type the desired name. The tracks must have unique names if you want to import them all. If two or more files have the same name, a warning dialog will appear when the sec- ond one is imported, allowing you to either cancel the operation or to re- place the first file saved with that name. 7.If you want to import to a format other than Wave, click on the file format button at the bottom of the dialog and select the desired format from the Audio File Format dialog that appears. See “Supported file formats” on page 113 for information about the available file formats.
WAVELAB 23 – 596 Importing audio CD/DVD tracks 8.If required, you can select one file and click Play. This will play the beginning of the track so that you can check it out. • If you notice that playback starts too late into the track – i.e. a small part of the beginning of the track is “cut out”, you can specify a pre-roll value to en- sure that the entire beginning of the track is read. This is done by selecting the option “Define reading of audio before and after CD track…” on the Options menu, and entering the desired pre-roll value in the dialog that appears. You can also specify a post-roll value to ensure that the entire end of the track is read. The tech- nical reason behind this is that it’s not possible to locate, or position, to anything closer than a frame – a block of data on a CD. Thus, if there is data in the middle of a frame, you might have to specify a pre-roll or post-roll so that the whole frame is read. See “About frames, positions, small frames and bits” on page 578 for more information. 9.Select as many tracks as you wish from the list. You can use [Ctrl] and [Shift] to make multiple selections, or use the Select All button. •You can also “drag and drop” one or more CD tracks onto WaveLab’s desktop or into an Audio Montage to save them. In the latter case, you can drop them in the clip list or directly into the track pane. For this to work, the item “Enable Drag and Drop to Audio Montages” must be activated on the Op- tions pop-up menu. 10.If you have only selected one file, you can import just a part of the track by adjusting the start and end/length values. The bar graph shows the part of the track that will be imported. 11.Click the Save button. The track(s) are retrieved. Optionally, each is opened in its own window. This is specified in the progress indication menu that appears during importing. About the Freedb function You need to be connected to the Internet to use the Freedb function. Clicking the Freedb button opens a pop-up menu where you can use some functions provided by Freedb to get information about your CDs. Freedb maintains a worldwide database of CD information. • When an audio CD is inserted, you can query the database to get the track names of this CD, and more. • If the CD is not yet recorded in the database, you have the option to become a participant by describing the CD and submitting your description to the da tabase. Find more information on this at www.freedb.org.
WAVELAB Importing audio CD/DVD tracks 23 – 597 File format – Converting CD track(s) to other formats The extracted audio files are saved in WAV (Wave) format by default. You can, however, directly save files in other audio formats by clicking the but- ton at the bottom of the dialog to open the Audio File Format dialog, and select the desired file format from the Type menu. Among the formats available are the following compressed audio formats: MP3, MP2, WMA and Ogg Vorbis. When any of these formats is selected, you can click the Encoding field and select “Edit…” from the pop-up to open the corresponding Encoding dialog, where you can specify the bit rate and other attributes of the file to be created. CD reading method In rare cases, the default method of extracting audio samples from a drive does not work. In such cases you can change the extraction method used by selecting the “CD reading method” item on the Options pop-up menu. This opens a dialog with several optional audio extraction methods. Click the question mark icon in the respective dialog for details. • Do not change the settings if you are not having problems! About Ultra-Safe mode Sometimes a small bit of a CD track is not properly retrieved (this de- pends on the quality of your CD drive). This can result in unpleasant clicks and pops. To solve this issue, you can activate the ultra-safe mode on the Options pop-up menu. When activated, each CD track is read several times until the exact same result is found (check sums are used). Convert to Montage The “Convert to Montage” function can convert a CD to an Audio Montage. There are two basic methods you can use; Standard mode or Exact mode. The Standard mode analyses digital silence between tracks to recreate pauses between tracks. Certain CDs don’t have pure digital silence be- tween tracks in which case the tracks will not be separated by pauses. The “Exact” mode method is different (and can take a while to complete). Here, all tracks, all index (and sub-index) markers and pauses are re- trieved (including audio-in-pauses), as well as CD-Text, ISRC and UPC codes. A single file is created. A third mode “Exact (no audio)” is also available. It is like “Exact” but without retrieving the audio tracks. Once you have converted to a montage, you can reorder tracks, remove some tracks or add new tracks. You can use this function to create mixed compilations of CDs.
WAVELAB 23 – 598 Importing audio CD/DVD tracks Convert to Basic Audio CD The “Convert to Basic Audio CD” function is similar to Convert to Mon- tage (Standard mode), but a Basic Audio CD is created instead. Convert to CD-Image / cue-sheet This will convert all tracks, all index (and sub-index) markers and pauses exactly, as well as CD-Text, ISRC and UPC codes. A CD-Ima ge file with a corresponding cue sheet is created. Notes • Note that importing audio CD tracks is technically more complicated than reading files from a CD-ROM or hard disk, because audio sectors can be hard to detect. Some CDs which do not conform completely to the CD standard may cause problems. • There are several other functions on the Options pop-up menu. Click the question mark icon in the dialog for details. • If you import a CD track with Emphasis, and later want to use this on a CD of your own, remember to activate Emphasis for that track in the Audio Montage or Basic Audio CD window.
WAVELAB Importing audio CD/DVD tracks 23 – 599 Importing DVD-Audio tracks into WaveLab WaveLab provides the ability to read audio tracks from DVD-A discs. This creates a digital copy of the audio from the DVD-A directly into an audio file on your hard disk. The main uses for this function are: •Recovering audio tracks from DVD-A discs you have generated and burnt onto DVD via WaveLab’s DVD-Audio project window (see “Creating and opening a DVD-Audio project” on page 552). This function makes it possible to use DVD-A projects as “playable archives” from which you can retrieve and play back audio tracks. •Similarly, you can use it to verify that DVD-A projects you generate in WaveLab are rendered correctly, and that tracks play back as they should. This can be done before or after the DVD-A project is burnt onto DVD – i.e. either from hard disk or DVD-A disc. • Please note that it is not possible to import audio tracks from commercially distributed, copy protected DVD-A discs! • There are also several other factors that determine whether WaveLab will be able to read tracks from DVD-A discs or not, for instance if they use compressed audio formats such as MLP, AC3, etc. The only way of finding out if the tracks on a certain DVD-A disc can be read or not is to try. If it isn’t possible via this dialog, the DVD-A is either copy protected or uses an audio format not supported by WaveLab. To import DVD-A tracks, proceed as follows: 1.Insert the DVD-A into the DVD unit. As previously mentioned, you can also import DVD-Audio tracks from a DVD-Audio project that has been generated to hard disk, but not yet burnt onto a DVD. 2.Pull down the Tools menu and select “Import DVD-Audio tracks”. The “Import DVD-Audio tracks” dialog appears. 3.Use the Source DVD-Audio menu at the bottom left of the dialog to select the DVD drive or hard disk folder from which you want to import audio tracks. Primarily, this is used for selecting a DVD drive containing the source material DVD-A. You can also select a directory on your hard disk in which you have saved a DVD-Audio project rendered from WaveLab.
WAVELAB 23 – 600 Importing audio CD/DVD tracks 4.Use the Destination folder menu below to select a destination folder for the file(s) to be imported. You can either type in the folder name and path directly or click the folder button to browse for a folder. The files will be saved with the name that appears in the visual menu. Note that you can re- name a file later – after clicking “Save” (see below). 5.Next, click the Analyse button. The DVD-A (on DVD or hard disk) is now analysed and the dialog is updated to display the contents of the DVD-A. The dialog is dominated by a display showing the DVD-A disc’s visual menu (see “Generating DVD menus” on page 558 for information about visual menus). The album title, the group names and the track names are displayed. You can navigate the menu and select groups and tracks by clicking on them. • Click on a group name to select it and show the tracks the group contains. • Click on a track name to select it. You can select multiple tracks by pressing [Shift] or [Ctrl] when you click. • To go back in the menu structure when displaying the tracks in a group, click the navigator button at the bottom of the visual menu. The Navigator button. • If the DVD-A does not contain a visual menu, the display will not show any- thing. It is still possible to import audio tracks from a DVD-A that doesn’t contain a visual menu though, by selecting the option “Retrieve all groups” in the dialog (see step 8 below). 6.If you want to import to a format other than Wave, click on the file format button at the bottom left of the dialog and select the desired format from the Audio File Format dialog that appears. See “Supported file formats” on page 113 for information about the available file formats. 7.If you wish, you can select a track and click Play. This will play the beginning of the track so that you can check it out. • If you notice that playback starts too late into the track – i.e. a small part of the beginning of the track is “cut out”, this could be because the pause be- tween the track and the previous one (i.e. the area between a track end marker and a track start marker) actually contains audio. In this case, you can activate the option “Get audio in pause”. All pauses between tracks on the DVD-A will then be checked to find if they contain audio, and any audio in pauses will be retrieved. See “Audio in pauses” on page 534 for more information about audio in pauses.